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18 janvier 2021 16:01

18 janvier 2021 16:01

In our 2019 report, Our Future in the Land, we made three sets of recommendations: • Healthy food should be everybody’s business, and we need to level the playing field for a fair food system. • Farming can be a force of change, with a transition to agroecology by 2030. • The countryside must work for all, with a land use framework to mediate all the demands placed on it. Along with many others, in businesses, governments, NGOs and communities, we ask: how can we feed a growing population with nutritious food, affordably, and within ecological boundaries? Moreover, how can we reverse the damages wrought by post-war policies for industrialised agriculture, and act on the climate and nature emergencies, in a way that enables people to flourish, and enterprises and communities to prosper, now and for future generations? These are huge, global issues for which there are no easy ‘silver bullet’ answers. Instead, they require the shared perspectives, balanced inquiry and collaborative actions of all of us. Already change is happening. More and more farmers are employing agroecological or regenerative practices – from joining longstanding and well-established certification schemes like Organics, biodynamics, LEAF and Pasture for Life Association, or government-backed stewardship schemes, or networks like Farming and Wildlife Advisory Groups, or the Nature Friendly Farming Network. More people are thinking about what they eat, and where it comes from. Governments are changing the policy context in which farming takes place as we transition out of CAP and into new support schemes which prioritise public benefits. But serious and reasonable questions persist: is it possible to feed people across the UK through agroecological farming alone? What impact would such a transition have on land use, on space for nature and biodiversity, on current and potential future farming enterprises, on food security, on food prices and affordability, on health and wellbeing, and on meeting UK net zero carbon targets, without offshoring our impacts? The research we have commissioned from IDDRI, and introduce here, starts to answer some of these foundational and technical questions – namely, is it feasible and plausible to plan to feed the nation through a shift to agroecology? And if so, what are the implications – or trade-offs to be made – compared to other scenarios, to forge a path to a more resilient, secure, fair and sustainable food and farming system? This is the decade in which significant and rapid changes must happen if we are to reverse and mitigate the climate and nature crises. It is why we set the goal of making the transition to agroecology by 2030. The IDDRI research, consistent with their work for the European region, provides data both to develop our recommendations to 2030 and to answer the related question of how agroecology will support the goal of net zero by 2050. Some aspects of the research strengthen the case to press on with ‘no regrets’ actions from governments, business and citizens, actions that start the rapid progress needed in this decade. For other issues, significant questions remain that are best resolved through deliberative and inclusive discussions, balancing different needs, interests and impacts, ensuring that the voices of the seldom heard, of future generations and those without a voice are included. In publishing this research, we are aiming to contribute fresh evidence to these important debates, and are convening further exploration of the rich data in the coming weeks.

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• AB - Utile à l'AB
• FREDO durabilité
• GEO Royaume-Uni
• agroécologie

07/01/2021

7 janvier 2021